TALKER publishes long-form interviews with artists working innovatively with live practice. Issue 16 is a conversation with Martín La Roche, whose work draws from collections of objects, memories and archives — reassembled into installations, performances and publications. In 2017 he founded the Musée Légitime: a museum inside a hat, now home to 205 works by different artists.
Born in Santiago, Chile, and living now in Amsterdam, Martín’s works commonly find starting points in existing collections of objects or memories and archives as modes of storytelling. These often meet their audiences as installations or publications, but this issue of TALKER explores the role performance plays in activating the many facets of his practice. In particular, we examine formative experiences in Chile and as a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, his collaboration informed by psychotherapeutic practices, Sandplay with Mirthe Berentsen, and the ongoing Musée Légitime, a museum inside a hat.
With Dongyoung Lee and Valeria Marchesini, he runs the publishing house Good Neighbour and with Arefeh Riahi and Maartje Fliervoet he forms the research collective To See the Inability to See.
Giles Bailey works with performance, using texts, video fragments and choreographies to explore how knowledge and meaning are generated through relationships with others.